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Book Review of Robert Caro's THE PASSAGE OF POWER
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He does not mention that phone call. Just like he does not mention the Crenshaw call either.

As per that night, he says that they drove around picking up three men for LBJ to take home with him: Moyers, Clifton, and Valenti.

And LBJ stayed up with them very late to map out the activities for the next day.

This is a really disappointing book so far. I am on about page 420.

He says three shots were fired in Dealey Plaza. And he puts the word conspiracy in quotation marks.

There is no way it justifies its length. And he spends page upon page describing things most people know about. Like five pages on the funeral parade. yet he spends only two pages on LBJ first meeting on Vietnam. Not even that really since some of those pages are back story. But yet, what he does write is incomplete and misleading. I shudder to think what he will say about appointing the Warren Commission.

Its also a dishonest book. He tries to imply that LBJ did not alter any of JFK's policies when he took over.

:lol:


This will be a main focus of my book when it comes out. How within a year, LBJ altered JFK's foreign policy in several places--all for the worst.

So I will ream him on that in my review.
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Book Review of Robert Caro's THE PASSAGE OF POWER - by Jim DiEugenio - 24-07-2012, 04:59 AM

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